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Posted: 1/16/2005 9:46:23 PM EDT
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| Chill homes, just last night I decided I'm gonna be Billy Badass and remove the mini-y comp on my Bushy M4 barrel. I got my dremel, some cutting discs, diamond carbide sanding attachment...the works. I get the top blind pin spinning freely so i decide to cut away the y-comp around it to get a pair of needlenose pliars on it. Heh....yeah so it looks like I wasn't paying attention. I'm 99.9% sure I went into the barrel. Maybe if I'm lucky it's not past the .500 diameter it would need to be lathed into. But then I found a deal on an A1 upper sans shell deflector and if I can get a decently priced slabside lower I'll just have the barrel cut down and make an XM177. |
Im sure most gunsmiths do the same thing in the beginning,at least it was yours and not some one elses,experimenting on your own stuff in the beginning is the way to go it just sucks when that happens but you cant make a perfect omlet without breaking a few eggs first just try to get a bit more technical help before trying again
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Fill the holes with JB weld then cover over with the aluminum black paint pen sold with the blueing supplies. It wont be perfect but will look a hell of a lot better and not allow crap in the receiver. I've got a paint pen on hand just for such f-ups. I just swappped FSBs on my Colt Hbar so I know all about things that sort of ....happen.. 
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A drill press or a Mill would have been a better tool than a hand drill!!! I did the same thing on a ARMS harris mount. I should have waited until the morning to bring my mount to work and drill it out properly, but instead I hand drill a screw out and sure enough the bit "walks" I did get the screw out, but it damaged the Stainless Steel insert. Well 1 hour of lathe time to hand make a new insert, and the problem is fixed. Sometimes we just get to excited and can't wait!!!! Well at least I do!!! P.S. JB Weld does do a nice job!!! If you fill it, file it and sand it just right, no one will even be able to tell the difference. |
Use Devcon to fill the holes. It will be like it never happened. You can machine Devcon, so that is the way to go. Next time use a drill press, drill press vise, stub bit, and a good center punch. |
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Noner, YOU WEREN'T INJURED! When drill bits slip the most minor thing they do is go into the work where you don't want them. Sometimes they go into YOU! And 45FMJoe, the same goes for you-double! A Dremmel can be really bad, particularly with a cutting wheel. So there are a few holes where they don't belong (they aren't that unsightly) or maybe a bit of overpenetration into a barrel. What's the worst that can happen? You learn that this kind of work takes more equipment and tooling than you have, you maybe have to buy a new part, and you move on. Move on while NOT BLEEDING. (Brought to you by Super Klutz-did you know that there's a different procedure for lighting a Propane water heater than for lighting a Natural Gas water heater? Wanna hear the details? )
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would love to hear the water heater story..and hope you werent hurt....I once had a little problem with electricty...sent me flying more than a few feet.
While I'm handy with a great many things, I'm supposedly highly qualified in electronics. While stationed in Panama, (about two years after the water heater incident) I made an error in judgement (I was in a hurry-DUH!) and a finger slipped onto a 1150VDC terminal in a high power amplifier. I actually burned off the corner of my finger tip-it smelled like somebody dropped a hotdog into the fire-and did what I'm told was an incredible little dance. I just know that it hurt like knives, and everybody I had to tell about it (OIC, doctor, commander) felt I was very lucky. And of course they laughed. By the way, in both instances I got the "honor" of giving my whole unit a safety briefing on the subject. This all does apply to the thread at hand. I was not 100% knowledgable about my water heater's characteristics, so I shouldn't have been messing with it. And I was not following approved procedures with the amplifier, so I should have just stopped and brainstormed the next step with my crew instead of barging on ahead. So weird eyebrows (think Russian diplomat) and a slightly re-contoured finger are reminders to take my time and know precisely what I'm doing before I do anything even potentially harmful. |
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Just change the topic name to "How to fix holes and blemishes". Then change your first post to read like, " I purposely put some holes in this receiver to show you people how easy it is to make a quality repair in little time". Just kidding, but seriously, I am glad that I saw this, because I am sure it will come in handy sometime down the road. Plus, doing your own smithing is half the fun. Or maybe more than half in this case!!!!! Thanks for sharing
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